Example sentences of "[vb infin] to [be] the same " in BNC.

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1 The transfer ratios differ in different applications of what might appear to be the same thing : V8 Ninety — 1.222:1 ; V8 One Ten — 1.410:1 and V8 Range Rover — 1.192:1 .
2 If you compare a striped object with one that has a different kind of black and white pattern , they do not appear to be the same size even if , in reality , they are identical .
3 At first glance two tanks standing side by side in a room may appear to be the same .
4 And why does it always appear to be the same photograph ?
5 We would like to be the same .
6 The manager 's commission does n't have to be the same on everything , and my initial rates with the straits were set by their lawyer at the beginning of our relationship .
7 Notice that x appears twice and the figures entered here do not have to be the same .
8 According to the principle of organic unities , the value of a whole does not have to be the same as the sum of the values of its parts .
9 The generality of application or the audi alteram partem maxim , and its flexibility in operation , were brought out by Lord Loreburn L.C. , who stated that the maxim applied to ‘ everyone who decides anything , ’ while recognising also that the manner in which a person 's case was heard did not necessarily have to be the same as an ordinary trial .
10 If , on the other hand , they are just different regions of a single universe , the laws of science would have to be the same in each region , because otherwise one could not move continuously from one region to another .
11 When he was asked why he himself did not become one , he replied that all men wanted to be Senators but he did not ; he did not want to be the same as other men who were as the uncoloured cloth of the Toga but he wished to be the red , that small and brilliant portion which causes the rest to be comely and beautiful .
12 The stress-timed rhythm theory states that the times from each stressed syllable to the next will tend to be the same , irrespective of the number of intervening unstressed syllables .
13 It 's different but erm if you really get an Orkney talker just talking to one another and er drawing out the words sometimes and so on it can get to be the same lilt as Welsh .
14 However , we told Sir John that at times there does not seem to be the same will on behalf of the RUC to combat loyalist terrorism .
15 Given that there does not seem to be the same reluctance to imbibe proteins made from plants as there is to be using the proteins in the milk of Dr Ron James ' transgenic sheep or Scotgen 's ‘ humanised ’ mouse antibodies , there may be a good case for a local entrepreneur to transfer an Amazonian shaman 's technology to make a Scottish national wonder drug .
16 Now I think that approach to health care is fundamentally wrong , because you measure the needs of a patient in one moment and then suggest that the needs of that , that the needs of that patient will continue to be the same in subsequent weeks or subsequent months .
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